I'm self-employed on several fronts, & one of my "jobs" is selling on Ebay (& has been for sevral years...so yeh, the lack of internet access would leave me, to use a technical term, screwed...also, my other job as a courier has me tethered to a pager, which the dispatchers use to send me info on the time & location of my stops, which they send out over...you guessed it... the Internet...on occasions, the pagers have quit functioning, & we are forced to relay info using another product of the modern information age, the Nextel phone with direct connect...& God help me if I'm out in the sticks somewhere without a Nextel-compatable cell tower nearby...

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